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BOY, LOST: A FAMILY MEMOIR
Kristina Olsson
It is 1950 and a pregnant 19 year old
woman boards a train only to have
her son Peter snatched from her arms
by her abusive husband. Yvonne is
distraught and terrified by the threats
of death to herself and her son if she
tries to get Peter back. Escaping to
her parents’ home in Brisbane, Yvonne
attempts to rebuild a life for herself
and her daughter – never forgetting
or forgiving herself for losing Peter.
Boy, Lost is a haunting story that gives a parallel view of
the life Peter endured without his mother and the life
Yvonne built with a second, much gentler, marriage and
more children. Kristina Olsson (the oldest child of the
second marriage) tells how this single event affected
the lives of her entire family. She describes how this one
moment changed Yvonne forever, the heartache and
shame that haunted them all and how mother and son
finally found each other late in life.